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TiVo Inc. on Monday introduced a feature that lets television viewers send personal information directly to advertisers when they see certain commercials, a move designed to open up TiVo's technology to more markets.

The move underscores advertising's importance to the future of TiVo, which comes only a few years after its introduction sent a chill through the ad sector with technology that let TV watchers skip over ads.

TiVo will now give advertisers direct access to viewers who are interested in their wares. The digital video recorder (DVR) maker said the upgrade lets some 1 million of its Series 2 stand-alone subscribers instantly respond to specially encoded advertising.

However, TiVo says the changes will not affect the way users normally view shows and skip ads, and will not force them to watch any ads they choose to ignore.

Under the new system, consumers can select an option to tell TiVo to release their contact information to an advertiser. For example, after watching an ad for an automobile or family vacation, users can use the remote control to request a brochure be sent to their home.

"Advertising is a substantial growth area," said Kimber Sterling, director of advertising and research sales at TiVo. "It is not a material revenue for us yet, relative to our overall revenue picture."

Advertising is the key to TiVo's distribution agreement, announced earlier this year, with Comcast Corp., the nation's largest cable television provider. TiVo is set to deploy its ad platform on Comcast's existing DVRs beginning next year.

To be sure, many consumers purchase DVRs hoping to avoid commercials. But TiVo said that lots of users choose to watch long-form commercials, typically about cars or Hollywood films, after they are downloaded discretely to TiVo set-top boxes.

QUESTIONS ABOUT LONG-FORM VIDEOS

"They (viewers) are spending two to four minutes engaged in the brand -- that is what makes that so valuable," he said. "We see between 5-and-30 percent of people who enter the (enhanced) showcases will release their names to that company."

Some direct TV boxes come with it now. It is a rip off. They are selling your stats and making money(hint you are being watched while you watch) Then they sell the service at a monthly fee, and the harware...

amhurst is fine... the town next to it is Granby, which is where i lived. drugs are sold in the bathroom by the students to not only the students but also the staff and the sherif's office.... u'd be able to visit my bestfriend/sister

sadly enough if i had stayed there my graduating class would of had about 40 [eople in it... damn hick towns...

*Hell hath no fury like a womens anger and damn be the fool who gets in her way*